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As to the existing age limit, I believe that allowing a child under the age of 13 to open an account on Facebook is very risky.

It is absolutely inconceivable that a pre-teen would have the ability or patience to go through the existing maze of settings to be able to make their Facebook account private enough to ensure protection from unwanted approaches, spam and exploitation of their personal pictures and content.

Side-stepping the age limit is facile: just use an older year of birth on sign up.

No proof of age is required and Facebook doesn't seem fussed at enforcing its own rules. If you, as a parent, decide to allow your under-13 year old child on Facebook, and clearly many parents do, I think you have to be able to answer a resounding "yes" to the questions below. Do you know how to tick all the privacy settings needed for a high level of privacy on Facebook?

Do you keep up to date with all the changes that Facebook makes with its privacy settings?

These are usually opt out rather than opt in, and there are regularly hidden changes. B It is very easy and more common than you think for children to have two separate accounts.

Are you prepared to have a Facebook account yourself and "friend" your own child? I've seen them often during the course of my own research for my cyber safety classes for parents: one "clean" account for Mum and Dad, and one where they can let loose!

From a recent article on Dawn.com: "WASHINGTON: Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, says a study released Tuesday.

Even more troubling, more than five million Facebook users were 10 years old or younger, and they were allowed to use Facebook largely without parental supervision leaving them vulnerable to threats ranging from malware to sexual predators, the State of the Net survey by Consumer Reports found." Read the rest, here.

At the recent Standing Committee of Attorney's General meeting in Adelaide, there was a discussion about the existing Australian privacy laws in regard to parents legally having access to their children's Facebook accounts.

During the discussion, an options paper was considered and discussed about whether the user age limit for Facebook in Australia should be raised from 13 to 18, while also requiring proof of age to sign up.

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